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The Recovery of a Nightingale’s Voice by Squirrel_Winchester
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
05 Aug 2023
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*SPOILERS FOR GOOD OMENS SEASON 2*
Aziraphale goes to Heaven, Crowley stays on Earth… but how long can they keep this up? It seems not long, if a little mental nudge is anything to go by.
Or, the obligatory fix-it reunion fic after enduring the trauma that is the final ten minutes of the season two finale.
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(Rights to all characters go to the lovely Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.)
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Everything Castiel is, everything he’s made of, is hitched to a thin golden string attached to Dean Winchester’s soul, tugging him closer, begging him to let them collide.
He recalls Aristophanes’ story of creation; the one in which humans were split in two as a divine punishment, forever in search of their other half.
Cas is not human, but he understands the sentiment.
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In which Dean is finally in a world without impending catastrophe, but it's also a world without Cas. He spends all day fighting not to think about it, and at night, his sleep is haunted by grief.But then his dreams start to feel more and more real, and no grave can hold Cas down.
Bookmarked by Squirrel_Winchester
16 Apr 2026
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The Soul Burns Brighter Than The Sun by Wow_thisiswheremylifeis
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
22 Jan 2024
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Dean’s sitting at the kitchen table with Sam when his phone rings. Jody’s name flashes across the screen and he considers not picking up. It’s not like Dean doesn’t want to talk to Jody, it's just that he can’t bear talking to anyone these days.
“Hi, Jody,” Sam says.
“Howdy, boys.” She asks them to take over a case. Something about werewolves. Dean doubts they will, Sam hasn’t let him pick up a gun in months, not since their last hunt.
Jody’s voice cuts through the phone. “Alright, if you boys don’t wanna take the case, I’ll see if Castiel will, but I think he’s helping Claire in Colorado–”
Dean doesn’t hear a damn thing after that, and by the looks of it, Sam doesn’t either. For the first time in days, Dean opens his mouth and speaks. “Cas is alive?”
Jody’s voice is quiet on the other end. “He didn’t tell you?”
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- Part 1 of The Soul Burns
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Bookmarked by Squirrel_Winchester
06 Feb 2026
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WOW. Well-written, has large and long fight scene towards end, Dean finds Cas within first chapter or two, lots of cases, eventually Dean and Cas move into house together in last chapter
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A Reason Worth Dying For / A Reason Worth Trying For by SandgrassBagel
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
24 Sep 2025
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Castiel's death hits Dean with a finality that leaves him drowning. Drowning in grief, in regret, in self-loathing, in heartbreak, in liquor. So when he stumbles across Lilly Sunder's notes on angels and, subsequently, a passage mentioning a gate to opening the Empty, he is determined to get Cas back.
No matter the cost.
Three weeks after Cas' return from the Empty, he is slowly healing from what the spell to retrieve him took. Three weeks after Cas' return, omens of angels and demons are scattered around the country. Three weeks after Cas' return, the Empty is bleeding.
Dean swore he would get Cas back no matter the cost. And he has, at the cost of endangering the balance of life and the afterlives. Dean has learned from dying and being the one left behind that it is easy to die for someone, but it is much harder to face the costs of surviving alongside them.
Even so, this time, Dean will not watch Cas die. And Cas has not and will not ever allow the same.
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Bookmarked by Squirrel_Winchester
29 Jan 2026
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Gone, gone. He can’t feel his hands. Gone, gone.
Is there a word for the absence of an echo? When you call into a vast, dark space and expect an answer, even just a reflection of your own voice, but nothing will call back to you? These are Dean’s thoughts. This is the world.
Wall at his back. Shuddering. Gone. Hands numb, shaking. Bereft of tears. Cas gone. Which means love gone. Forever.
Wall at his back and he can’t stop trembling. Numb. It could be seconds, or minutes, or hours. It feels like years. Time dissolves around him, the world dissolves around him. Cas. Gone.
And only the absence of an echo of the world, left.
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Fixing the events of 15x19 to give the characters believable arcs and the stories they deserved (including Michael because WOW) and the events of 15x20 so that, essentially, they never happened and Dean grieved properly before getting to live out his days with the love of his life, on earth.
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Bookmarked by Squirrel_Winchester
10 Jan 2026
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Very eloquently and poetic; towards end Cas and Dean marry and take over Sonny’s ranch and adopt
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There’s a hole in the world, and it’s shaped like Cas. It’s this yawning, seething rift in the fabric of the universe and it hovers behind Dean’s shoulder all the. Fucking. Time. He can’t escape it. And honestly? He doesn’t want to. This grief is all he has left.
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- Part 1 of Step 9
Bookmarked by Squirrel_Winchester
19 Dec 2025
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VERY good - grief in first five chapters, cas comes back; Dean builds cas a cabin in Washington to live in when he gets back, tenuous relationship w Sam, book of poems from old homeowner from ‘50s (very good poetry!!), Jack moves in by the end